Historic Hudson River Towns

History of Rockwood Hall
2023-03-04 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Rockwood Hall, 1 Rockwood Road, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
Join Rockwood docent David Teich on an adventure into the past as he explores Rockwood Hall and its rich history through stories of the land and the people who called it home.
Former estate of William Rockefeller, this site boasts scenic views overlooking the Hudson, lush forests, and remnants of 19th century luxuries. Leashed dogs are welcome.
Please bring water to drink and wear comfortable closed-toed shoes; the hike is about 2 miles roundtrip.
This hike is at Rockwood Hall, DO NOT go to the main Preserve entrance. The parking lot is on Kendal Way off route 117, just after the intersection of Phelps and Regeneron. If the lot is full, you may park in the Phelps garage (free).
Gather at the kiosk at the top of the hill across the street from the parking lot.

Edward Hopper's Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision
2023-03-04 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-05 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-09 12:00 - 17:00 | Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Curated by Carole Perry and Kathleen Motes Bennewitz, with Lynne Z. Bassett
This exhibition investigates how the artistic vision of Edward Hopper (1882-1967) coalesced during his youth in Nyack until he moved away in 1908, at age 26, to pursue his career in New York City. It features selections of the artist’s early drawings and sketches on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, private collections and the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust, as well as school notebooks, artmaking materials, and costumes, memorabilia, and artworks by Hopper and family members from the Edward Hopper House Museum’s collection and its Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive. Together, these objects provide a glimpse into Hopper’s early years, the influence of his boyhood proximity to the busy waterfront and commercial district of his hometown, and insights into his life at home and his family’s support of his developing talent and ambitions.
$10 Non-Members
$8 Seniors
Membership checked at door
Exhibit runs from November 3, 2022-March 26, 2023 during the Hopper House’s regular hours, which are as follows:
Thursdays 1pm-5pm
Fridays 1pm-5pm
Saturdays 12pm-5pm
Sundays 12pm-5pm

Unique Crystal Fine Art Paintings
2023-03-04 13:00 - 16:00, 2023-03-05 13:00 - 16:00 | Arts Alive Art Gallery,85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Do you love crystals? Experience the power of crystals
in a new collection of 20+ original fine art crystal paintings.
Each painting combines the power of a specific Color, Image, and Crystal to
produce positive energy for peace, joy, success, and/or wealth. Crystals in the paintings include: Citrine, Amethyst,
Rose Quartz, Clear Quartz, Peridot, Moonstone, and others.
You will feel the power of these unique crystal paintings when you visit.
Paintings come with info about the crystal, color, and image used
and are affordably priced from $60 to $195.
This is a must-see, brand-new, unique fine-art genre.
Arts Alive Art Gallery, 85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY
Saturdays & Sundays 1 – 4 pm.

Double Vision at Lagstein Gallery
2023-03-04 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-05 13:00 - 18:00 | Lagstein Gallery,85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
DON BRADFORD
Don Bradford, a ceramic artist for more than 40 years, has worked with raku, pit-barrel firing and ceramic sculpture. His pieces have been exhibited at the New Jersey State Museum, the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University, The Bergen Museum, and Morris Set Museum, among others.
A practicing ceramic instructor, he has taught and lectured for the NJ Arts in Education Foundation’s Project Impact, the Thompson Park Creative Arts Center in New Jersey; St Thomas Aquinas College, and RoCA in New York. Bradford holds a BA from Montclair University and a MA from William Patterson University, and independent studies at Tuscarora Pottery School, NV, the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, TN, the Greenwich House Pottery, NYC, and the Aegean School of Fine Arts, Greece.
MELISSA SGROI
Melissa Sgroi, an emerging abstract expressionist painter, primarily works on oversized primed canvas attached to the wall with pushpins and nails, which she later stretches. Sgroi paints on paper as well, developing gestural brushstrokes and color groups.
LAGSTEIN GALLERY
85 South Broadway
Nyack NY 10960
845.535.1509
GALLERY HOURS:
Thurs:3-6
Fri: 3-6
Sat: 1-6
Sun: 1-4
or by appointment lagsteingallery@gmail.com

Steve Davis Sextet
2023-03-04 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-03-04 21:30 - 23:00 | Jazz Forum Club, 1 Dixon Lane, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Steve Davis Sextet featuring Abena Koomson-Davis on vocals, Tony Davis on guitar, Brandon McCune on piano, Nat Reeves on bass & Willie Jones III on drums!
The inimitable “Stevie-D,” Steve Davis came up through his mentor Jackie McLean’s group and then Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers to become one of the leading jazz trombonists of his generation. His most recent album Bluesthetic, his 20th as a leader, earned four stars from Downbeat.
Steve’s jazz vocalist wife Abena, who has put lyrics to Steve’s compositions, is featured on this gig, as is his son Tony, an exciting guitarist, composer, educator and recording artist.

March Poetry Slam at X House in Nyack, NY
2023-03-04 19:30 - 22:00 | X House, 48 South Franklin Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
We have a monthly poetry slam the first Saturday of each month at X House in Nyack.
What’s a poetry slam? It’s a performance poetry competition judged by the audience. We use anonymous whole-room voting, so everybody in the audience gets to decide how the slam goes.
If you want to complete in the slam, bring at least 3 original poems, each of duration 5 minutes or less. If you want to read in the open mic, bring up to 5 minutes of whatever you feel like sharing.
We are now requiring masks to show our immune compromised or otherwise high risk friends that we care about them and we want them to included. N95 and KN95 masks will be freely available at the door, with both ear loop and head strap options.
Workshop (6:30 – 7:28)
Bryan, one of our organizers, is leading a free editing workshop before the slam. If you have a piece you want feedback on, bring it.
Sign-ups (7:30 – 8:03)
Sign-ups for both the open mic and the slam will be open from 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM. Admission is $10 general; $5 for students, seniors, and anyone who can’t afford $10 right now.
Open Mic and Slam (8:03 – 10:00)
The event starts with a short open mic. Up to 4 people can sign up to share five minutes of whatever they feel like sharing.
After the open mic is our poetry slam. Up to 8 people can sign up for it. The slam is 3 rounds. Poets will perform 1 original poem, 5 minutes or shorter, each round.
The whole audience will anonymously vote at the end of each round. Poets with the fewest votes will be eliminated. Poets with the most votes will advance to the next round.
The poet that has the most votes after the third round wins the slam and $75. Second place wins $50. Third place wins $25.
CART captioning is available with sufficient advance notice.
You can contact us with any questions at rocklandpoets@gmail.com
Slam format/rules at https://www.rocklandpoets.org/slam-format-rules

Croce Plays Croce
2023-03-04 20:00 - 21:30 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
A.J. Croce performs Croce Plays Croce, a special night of music at Tarrytown Music Hall featuring a complete set of classics by his late father Jim Croce, some of his own tunes, and songs that influenced both him and his father. This special event features such timeless songs as “Operator,” “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim,” “Time in a Bottle,” (a song written for A.J.), “Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy), and “Lovers Cross”, to name a few. Classic covers may include songs by Lieber and Stoller, Bessie Smith, and other folk and roots artists.
Jim Croce was an American folk singer with a short-lived professional recording and touring career, and decades of posthumous fame as one of the greatest songwriters and artists ever. With sales surpassing 50 million records, including three #1 songs and 10 Top 10 hits, Jim Croce’s short career and long-lived legacy are well-remembered through his era-defining standards like “Operator,” Time in a Bottle,” and “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.”

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2023-03-05 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-06 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-07 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-08 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-09 09:00 - 20:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion
Sculptures by Dorothy M. Gillespie
The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park
Oct. 15, 2021 – Oct. 2023
Free to the Public, Dawn to Dusk
RoCA is proud to present the The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion exhibit as a part of a tribute to the 20th Century artist and feminist, Dorothy Gillespie. The exhibit will open October 15th in The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park at RoCA.
Dorothy Gillespie’s joyful and brilliantly colored starbursts glimmer hanging from the trees as well as lining the pathway. The pieces create an enchanted garden of colors in motion. Though stationary they seem to possess a kinetic quality. Two larger pieces can be seen at the entry to RoCA. The exhibit was partially installed this summer and will be completed for exhibit October 15th. The exhibit will remain on display through October 2023.
Gillespie (1920-2012) was born in Roanoke, VA and lived in Nyack during the later years of her life. She pioneered joyful, new directions of metal sculpture and is best known for large-scale, colorfully painted arrangements of cut aluminum strips curling, radiating, or undulating in giant arrangements of ribbons, enchanted towers, or bursting fireworks. She was well known as a painter, sculptor and installation artist whose work incorporated many significant 20th-century trends in art.
During Dorothy Gillespie’s youth … “girls did not attend art school, at least not ‘nice’ girls,” said Gillespie in 2010. Nevertheless, she was determined to be an artist and attended the Maryland Institute College in Baltimore. She was more fortunate than women sculptors in the 19th Century who were mostly hired as studio assistants by established male sculptors with few exhibitions. Harriet Hosmer, Emma Stebbins, Edmonia Lewis, Frances Grimes and Helen Mears were some of the few who made names in the arts as women during that time. They did not pursue monumental work as frequently as men did and mostly produced works in bronze and consistent middle-class demand for small-scale sculpture to decorate the home and garden. Today many more women are now entering traditional male dominated sculpture roles in metal, wood and stone, thanks to the pioneering activism of women like Dorothy Gillespie in the 20th century.
An influential force in the women’s movement, Gillespie encouraged more women’s art in museums and art in public spaces. In 1970, Gillespie joined Women in the Arts and created picket signs protesting at the Whitney Museum demanding that the curators choose more women artists for their “Annual exhibition. The demonstration worked, and more women artists were chosen for the show. Although the increase was very slow, over time it increased from 8 percent to 40 percent. Gillespie was the Founder of the Women Artists Historical Archives of the Women’s Interart Center in NY, NY, filming and taping interviews of some of the most important women artists of the 20th century as well as presenting her own radio show. Gillespie along with Joyce Weinstein founded a group called the NY Professional Women Artists. The 14 members lectures at Universities and wrote articles to encourage other women artists.
Gillespie also coordinated a course to educate and enlighten women in the visual arts, after being invited to teach at The New School in NYC. The intent was to prepare women for a new, more aggressive role to function in the art world. Due to her already busy schedule, she asked artist Alice Barber to share the task of revealing to the young students the ‘system’ that drove the NY art world and how to succeed. In 1974 she organized an innovative outdoor exhibition, Walk Through Art, mounted in Central Park, Battery Park, and Rockefeller Center, then travelling to fifty colleges, universities and street fairs. Compelled to involve viewers in her work, she created large 7 ft high triangles of art for people to walk through the sculptures. Gillespie has held positions of designing programs as a Professor of Art, being a Board of Trustees for more than one college or art center, as a visiting artist in residency and as the Chairperson of the Fine Arts Committee for the International Women’s Art Festival.
Dorothy Gillespie’s career spanned seven decades, always at the forefront of the American Art movement. She studied at the Maryland Institute College in Baltimore before moving to New York City, where she studied at the Art Students League. Her works grace many institutions, museums, colleges, universities and public spaces, including the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the United States Mission to the United Nations. She was one of the first artists to offer her art to the world through displays in the lobbies of public institutions and governmental centers such as the Mayo Clinic, Epcot Center, Warren Wilson College, Fort Lauderdale Airport-Delta Terminal, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Miami Public Library, United States Mission to the United Nations, and the Court House Square – Roanoke, VA and Universities across the country.
Among her many honors, Gillespie received the Alice Baber Art Fund, Inc. Grant Award: a Doctor of Pedagogy from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, A Doctor of Fine Arts (Honoris Causa) from Caldwell College in Caldwell, NY, an Allied Professions Award from the Virginia Society, the American Institute of Architects in Richmond, VA., the Distinguished Alumni Award from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, the Outstanding Services Award from University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and the Gala 8 “Distinguished Woman” Award at Birmingham Southern College.
The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park is open from dawn to dusk, free to the public. Brochures can be picked up at the registration desk. For more information visit: www.rocklandartcenter.org or call 845-358-0877.
This exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous support of The Dorothy M. Gillespie Foundation and Gary Israel.
RoCA’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Funding is also made possible by the County of Rockland.
RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Peter & Rebecca Lang, Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., Luxury Kitchen and Bath, Golden Artist Colors, Inc., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting Services Inc., Sarah and Stephen Thomas, the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Simona and Jerome Chazen, Art Services Group, RoCA members, donors and business members.

16th Annual Penguin Plunge
2023-03-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Memorial Park Nyack
It’s cold and snowy and no two ways about it! If you can’t beat it, you might as well embrace the winter in the best way possible! Take a plunge into the frosty waters of the historic Hudson not only for yourself, but for these great kids who have serious illnesses!
Over the past 13 years the Penguin Plunge has raised over $440,000 to help over a dozen families offset the astronomical medical expenses associated with caring for their children with serious illnesses. These are your neighbors… your friends… your community. From toddlers to teenagers, boys and girls, these brave youngsters fight a daily battle to live a normal life in spite of the conditions they each face.
The Penguin Plunge counts on members of the community like you to contribute in some way to help them in their fight.
You can make a difference in their lives.
Register here: https://www.penguinplungeny.com/register

Roseanna Vitro
2023-03-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Jazz Forum Club, 1 Dixon Lane, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
“Singer Roseanna Vitro has had great success with her strikingly soulful tributes to Ray Charles (1997’s Catchin’ Some Rays) and Bill Evans (2001’s Conviction). Her collection of radically re-imagined Randy Newman originals like “Last Night I Had a Dream,” “In Germany Before the War” and “Sail Away” provides sterling arrangements by pianist Mark Soskin and stirring performances by violinist Sara Caswell. Another triumph by the bluesy Jazz Ambassador.” – Bill Milkowski
Roseanna’s powerhouse group features: “Blues, Bird and Beyond” recording soon with Ted Ludwig, guitar, pianist Oscar Perez, bassist, Dean Johnson, and drummer, Tim Horner.
Grammy-nominated vocalist Roseanna Vitro, whose acclaimed tribute albums to Ray Charles, Bill Evans, and Randy Newman buoyed her career, pays homage to Charlie Parker on her latest (and 15 th ), Sing A Song Of Bird, featuring new lyrics to Parker songs and jazz giants Sheila Jordan, Gary Bartz and the late Bob Dorough.
This gig at Tarrytown’s Jazz Forum celebrates that album and beyond with special guest, guitarist Ted Ludwig who can “burn up the fingerboard with mindboggling technique” (Jazziz).

BridgeMusik Spring Festival 2023
2023-03-06 - 2023-05-02 | Various, Various, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
We are excited to announce BridgeMusik Spring Festival 2023 (March 6 – May 1, 2023). Our students will participate in masterclasses with renowned artists: Carol Wincenc (flute professor, The Juilliard School), Jerry Grossman (principal cello, The MET Opera) and Kurt Nikkanen (concertmaster, NYC Ballet). Festival students will also be working with our wonderful team of regular and new faculty members! There will be several live performances featuring our students, faculty and guest artists.

Registration information and schedule of events can be found here.

Post-Impressionism In Its Own Right: Online Class
2023-03-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Bethany Arts Community, 40 Somerstown Rd, Ossining, NY, 10562, United States
Join Jill Kiefer, Ph.D. as she leads her Online Course series for BAC entitled: “Post-Impressionism In Its Own Right” for 6 Tuesdays, 02/21-03/28, 2023 from 10 – 11 AM.
Discussions of Post-Impressionism are often limited to its relationship with Impressionism. But this diverse and distinctive movement stands very much on its own—having traveled quite different paths than those explored by the Impressionists. Indeed, Post-Impressionism embraced the past, the present, and the future—and its influence remains a force today.
In this program, we’ll focus on the key Post-Impressionists (Seurat, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin) to examine their unique achievements. Which ones most avidly pursued symbolic and subjective meanings in their art? How and why did structure, optics and order become the obsession of others? In what ways did their combined efforts and aesthetic visions define what would become the modern idiom? Join us as we seek the answers to these questions, and identify how Post-Impressionism fits into the broad tapestry that is art history.

Hudson Valley Art and Thomas Cole (Part 1)
2023-03-07 14:00 - 15:30 | Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library,10 West Ramapo Road, Garnerville, NY, USA
Part 1 – Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School
Like any good hike or visit to a favorite park, landscape paintings open up
the vast world of nature. But more than a pretty picture, Thomas Cole’s
paintings are coded with a plea for preserving wilderness while growing a
country that coexists in harmony with the land. Influential today as well
as 200 years ago, this 19th-century American painter became our first
conservationist. He also recognized how important the vast expanses of land
were for shaping American identity. His followers, forming the Hudson River
School of landscape art, built on Cole’s legacy and used their works for
political persuasion. In this interactive talk, we’ll dig beyond the
surface and take a slow look at paintings that tell complex, often coded
stories of national as well as personal choice. You will leave refreshed,
with renewed vigor for our natural world and all its meaning.
Rena’s greatest passion is making art accessible, invigorating, insightful,
and fun. She has taught art history at NYU’s School for Professional
Studies and Southern Connecticut State University. Rena provides talks for
New York Adventure Club and New York Public Library, as well as many
community organizations. She conducts lively, interactive tours of museum
collections, now via Zoom. Just for fun, she has created Artventures!®
Game–a cheeky party game on the adventures of art and art history.

Hudson Valley Art and Thomas Cole (Part 2)
2023-03-07 14:00 - 15:30 | Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library,10 West Ramapo Road, Garnerville, NY, USA
Thomas Cole and The Voyage of Life
In this session, we take a close look at four paintings and turn our gaze
inward. Becoming a wise elder involves looking through our life
experiences, reflecting on lessons learned, and applying those as we move
forward. Thomas Cole, a 19th-century American artist who inspired the
Hudson River School of landscape art, brought these reflections to the
canvas, with his four-painting series The Voyage of Life.
Now, you have the opportunity to examine your own voyage of life in this
guided personal development session with art historian Rena Tobey. Bring a
journal or some paper and something to write with; be prepared for some
quiet reflection. In this 60-minute session, you will be thinking about
your own life using the framework of Cole’s four paintings. We will build
on the introduction to the artist in part 1 with focus on the specific
symbols and meaning embedded in each painting–all to deepen your own
thinking.
Starting with part 1 will provide more context for your personal work, and
part 2 can also stand alone. Either way, come learn about Cole’s painted
arc of lived experience, and use his model to consider your own journey on
the river of life.
Register for Part 1 of this 2-part series.

Bubblemania featuring Casey Carle
2023-03-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Rittenhausen Theater at BOCES 131 North Midland Avenue Nyack, NY
Sunday, April 2nd at 2:00pm EST
Theater at Old Nyack High School
131 North Midland Avenue, Nyack, NY
Tickets: Child $12 / Adult $20 / Family Four Pack $50
Bubbles! Big Bubbles! Thousands of Bubbles! An extremely unique program fusing high-energy entertainment, highly crafted showmanship and artistic achievement. Casey’s show is loaded with in-the-moment improvisation, quick wit, big band swing music, a bit of audience participation and the untamed, often unbelievable qualities of spherical liquids. Part Science, All Fun! The show includes fog-filled bubble art forms and jazz inspired, choreographed routines to eventually “trapping” people inside bubbles!

Dine Out for Change & Celebrate International Women's Day
2023-03-08 17:30 - 20:30 | Nyack, NY, USA
Celebrate International Women’s Day and Dine Out for Change.
International Women’s day is next week, and this year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity.
Let’s celebrate and support the Center for Safety and Change. For over 40 years, the Center for Safety and Change has remained the only victim-assistance non-profit agency in Rockland County, providing critical comfort to victims in crisis 24/7/365.
For International Women’s Day and beyond, let’s all fully #EmbraceEquity.
Call to reserve your spot at 845.480.5416

NOSH AND PLAY! - A BI-WEEKLY ADULT "RETREAT"
2023-03-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Creative Arts Workshop, 48 Burd St, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
NOSH AND PLAY! – A BI-WEEKLY ADULT “RETREAT”
Every other Wednesday 6:30-8:15pm
$25 per visit
A continuation of our “Paint, Nosh, Reflection” series.
This go around we will have guest facilitators lead a group activity which will be focused from theatre, the arts, dance, or mindfulness.
This is an easy to swallow (pun-intended) evening meant to relax, inspire, and engage all of your senses.
So come join the fun and get out of the week-day brunt and let’s Nosh and Play!!
Each week a special “nosh” will be featured to “feed the soul” in a very figurative way!
This is a safe space to make art, be yourself, and heal. Please come with that in mind as we hold space and kindness towards one another in the shared retreat.
Come for one or all evenings.

Nyack Farmer's Market
2023-03-09 09:00 - 13:00 | Main Street Parking Lot, 119 Main Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Nyack Farmers Market – A Four Season Outdoor Farmers Market
The Market offers a cornucopia of the best local produce, grass-fed meat, fresh seafood, beautiful baked goods, perfectly prepared foods, and handcrafted goods ready to fill your tables and gift baskets.

HOURS:
Thursdays from 9am to 1pm, outdoors year-round in the Main Street parking lot year-round.

PARKING:
Parking in the Artopee Lot is free during Market hours, and street parking is free before 10am. Meters throughout the Village are in effect Monday-Saturday from 11am to 7pm. Farmers Market vendors and patrons: please do not park in the M&T Bank parking lot.
